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Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 86
the power of the United States, wielded by the slave oligarchy, was on the side of the aggressors. This was the state of things when the hero of Ossawatomie and his brave sons went to the rescue. It was he who first turned the tide of border-ruffian triumph, by showing them that blows were to be taken as well as given. You may believe it or not, Governor Wise, but it is certainly the truth that, because slave-holders so recklessly sowed the wind in Kansas, they reaped a whirlwind at Harper's Ferry. The people of the North had a very strong attachment to the Union; but by your desperate measures you have weakened it beyond all power of restoration. They are not your enemies, as you suppose, but they cannot consent to be your tools for any ignoble task you may choose to propose. You must not judge of us by the crawling sinuosities of an Everett; or by our magnificent hound, whom you trained to hunt your poor cripples, Alluding to Daniel Webster and the Fugitive Slave Law. a
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 86
you may choose to propose. You must not judge of us by the crawling sinuosities of an Everett; or by our magnificent hound, whom you trained to hunt your poor cripples, Alluding to Daniel Webster and the Fugitive Slave Law. and then sent him sneaking into a corner to die — not with shame for the base purposes to which his strength had been applied, but with vexation because you withheld from him the promised bone. Not by such as these must you judge the free, enlightened yeomanry of New England. A majority of them would rejoice to have the slave States fulfil their oft-repeated threat of withdrawal from the Union. It has ceased to be a bugbear, for we begin to despair of being able, by any other process, to give the world the example of a real republic. The moral sense of these States is outraged by being accomplices in sustaining an institution vicious in all its aspects ; and it is now generally understood that we purchase our disgrace at great pecuniary expense. If you wo
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 86
means, they accomplished it by a most open and palpable violation of the Constitution, and by obtaining the votes of senators on false pretenses. The following senators, Mr. Niles of Connecticut, Mr. Dix of New York, and Mr. Tappan of Ohio, published statements that their votes had been ordained by false representations; and they declared that the case was the same with Mr. Heywood of North Carolina. Soon afterward a Southern slave administration ceded to the powerful monarchy of Great Britain several hundreds thousands of square miles that must have been made into free States, to which that same administration had declared that the United States had an unquestionable right and then they turned upon the weak republic of Mexico, and, in order to make more slave States, wrested from her twice as many hundred thousands of square miles, to which we had not a shadow of right. Notwithstanding all these extra efforts, they saw symptoms that the political power so long held with a
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 86
w you were opposed to the iniquitous attempt to force upon Kansas a Constitution abhorrent to the moral sense of her people.arantied to slavery, and all north of it to freedom. Thus Kansas became the battle-ground of the antagonistic elements in oother States were returned by thousands as legal voters in Kansas, in order to establish a Constitution abhorred by the peophe nation. Peaceful emigrants from the North, who went to Kansas for no other purpose than to till the soil, erect mills, ahat, because slave-holders so recklessly sowed the wind in Kansas, they reaped a whirlwind at Harper's Ferry. The people to you, you will recognize in my name an earnest friend of Kansas, when circumstances made that Territory the battle-ground l do to earn a living. He was a most dreadful sufferer in Kansas, and lost all he had laid up. He has not enough to cloth living son, or son-in-law, who did not suffer terribly in Kansas. Now, dear friend, would you not as soon contribute fif
Ilva (Italy) (search for this): chapter 86
ut doing me any good. Allow me to name to you another channel through which you may reach me with your sympathies much more effectually. I have at home a wife and three young daughters, the youngest but little over five years old, the oldest nearly sixteen. I have also two daughters-in-law, whose husbands have both fallen near me here. There is also another widow, Mrs. Thompson, whose husband fell here. Whether she is a mother or not, I cannot say. All these, my wife included, live at North Elba, Essex county, New York. I have a middle-aged son, who has been, in some degree, a cripple from his childhood, who would have as much as he could well do to earn a living. He was a most dreadful sufferer in Kansas, and lost all he had laid up. He has not enough to cloth himself for the winter comfortably. I have no living son, or son-in-law, who did not suffer terribly in Kansas. Now, dear friend, would you not as soon contribute fifty cents now, and a like sum yearly, for the relie
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 86
he privileges and immunities of a citizen of the United States in the State of Virginia. That Constitution I aul purposes, in common with every citizen of the United States. I was perfectly well aware that such was the tr booted loafers would overrun the troops of the United States like a herd of buffalo, if the government sent tasion of a neighboring nation, at peace with the United States, did you not pledge yourself to commit treason? d to load the mules of Mexico with gold for the United States? Was it not by the murder of unoffending Mexicah that same administration had declared that the United States had an unquestionable right and then they turnedlinded people, by which all the territory of the United States south of 36° 300 was guarantied to slavery, and ent for aid. And all this while the power of the United States, wielded by the slave oligarchy, was on the sidenly strive to reconcile in the government of the United States. Believing in peace principles, I cannot symp
Wayland (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 86
Correspondence between Mrs. Child, John Brown, and Governor Wise and Mrs. Mason of Virginia. To Governor Henry A. Wise. Wayland, Mass., October 26, 1859. Governor Wise,--I have heard that you were a man of chivalrous sentiments, and I know you were opposed to the iniquitous attempt to force upon Kansas a Constitution abhorrent to the moral sense of her people. Relying upon these indications of honor and justice in your character, I venture to ask a favor of you. Inclosed is a letter to . Meanwhile, his wife, said to be a brave-hearted Roman matron, worthy of such a mate, has gone to him, and I have received the following reply. Respectfully yours, L. Maria Child. Boston, November 10, 1859. Mrs. Child to John Brown. Wayland [Mass.], October 26, 1859. Dear Captain Brown: Though personally unknown to you, you will recognize in my name an earnest friend of Kansas, when circumstances made that Territory the battle-ground between the antagonistic principles of slavery an
Jefferson (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 86
r, which was never broken, that I would use such permission solely and singly for the purpose of nursing your prisoner, and for no other purpose whatsoever. Yours respectfully, L. Maria Child. Reply of Governor Wise. Richmond, Va., October 29, 1859. Madam,--Yours of the 26th was received by me yesterday, and at my earliest leisure I respectfully reply to it, that I will forward the letter for John Brown, a prisoner under our laws, arraigned at the Circuit Court for the county of Jefferson, at Charlestown, Va., for the crimes of murder, robbery, and treason, which you ask me to transmit to him. I will comply with your request in the only way which seems to me proper, by inclosing it to the Commonwealth's attorney, with the request that he will ask the permission of the court to hand it to the prisoner. Brown, the prisoner, is now in the hands of the judiciary, not of the executive, of this Commonwealth. You ask me, further, to allow you to perform the miss-ion of mother
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 86
and legislators. What regard was paid to constitutional obligation in South Carolina,--when Massachusetts sent the Hon. Mr. Hoar there as an envoy, on a purely legal errand? Mr. Hedrick, professor of Political Economy in the University of North Carolina, had a constitutional right to reside in that State. What regard was paid to that right, when he was driven from his home merely for declaring that he considered slavery an impolitic system, injurious to the prosperity of States? What respe The following senators, Mr. Niles of Connecticut, Mr. Dix of New York, and Mr. Tappan of Ohio, published statements that their votes had been ordained by false representations; and they declared that the case was the same with Mr. Heywood of North Carolina. Soon afterward a Southern slave administration ceded to the powerful monarchy of Great Britain several hundreds thousands of square miles that must have been made into free States, to which that same administration had declared that the
Charles Town (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 86
--Yours of the 26th was received by me yesterday, and at my earliest leisure I respectfully reply to it, that I will forward the letter for John Brown, a prisoner under our laws, arraigned at the Circuit Court for the county of Jefferson, at Charlestown, Va., for the crimes of murder, robbery, and treason, which you ask me to transmit to him. I will comply with your request in the only way which seems to me proper, by inclosing it to the Commonwealth's attorney, with the request that he will asko Virginia for any lawful and peaceful purpose. Coming, as you propose, to minister to the captive in prison, you will be met, doubtless, by all our people, not only in a chivalrous, but in a Christian spirit. You have the right to visit Charlestown, Va., Madam ; and your mission, being merciful and humane, will not only be allowed, but respected, if not welcomed. A few unenlightened and inconsiderate persons, fanatical in their modes of thought and action to maintain justice and right, mig
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